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The patent office has rejected Visa's application to patent a token system for securing customer data, finding the process did not address a technical problem or provide a technical solution.
The full Fair Work Commission has rejected a union's challenge to a decision affirming Energy Australia’s practice not to make superannuation contributions on earnings for time off in lieu of overtime for shift workers.
The lead plaintiff in a class action alleging NSW Police conducted illegal strip searches at music festivals has argued the state cannot rely on a defence that the searches were a reasonable exercise of power, after a recent judgment found the defence does not apply to unlawful arrests.
Start-up Element Zero has attacked search orders won by Fortescue over the alleged misappropriation of the mining company's confidential information by three former employees, calling the orders an “industrial scale forensic debacle” won on weak evidence and the failure to disclose material information.
HWL Ebsworth has won indemnity costs against a former client who alleged the firm gave negligent advice over property in Parramatta’s 'Auto Alley', with a court saying the client was the “author of the outcome about which it complains” by rejecting a $1.35 million settlement offer.
A class action on behalf of public housing tenants who were allegedly forced to relocate is facing a bid for summary judgment by the ACT government, which claims it is not the correct respondent.
The former general manager of iProsperity has lost his challenge to the collapsed fund manager's liquidators getting more time to investigate $18 million in payments he received, with the Full Court finding they were not wrong to prioritise investigations into $62.5 million in payments to Crown and The Star.
Victorian Liberal party leader John Pesutto's credit will be at issue in defamation proceedings brought against him by expelled party member Moira Deeming, who alleges she was "piled upon" during a party meeting over an anti-trans rally she attended.
Corrs Chambers Westgarth has lured a class actions pro who led Ashurt's litigation practice in Melbourne, as well as four other partners from top firms.